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...trauma of Sept. 11. After the lead single, Beautiful Day, won three awards at last year's Grammys--prompting Bono to declare immodestly, "[We're] reapplying for the job. What job? The best band in the world job"--the album slowly sank on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, bottoming out at 108 in August 2001. But in the months after 9/11, as people looked for comfort, escape or both, the album picked up momentum, rising as high as 25 after the Super Bowl, in its 67th week of release. The album is not prescient, just elastic. On Walk...
...Japan's economic crisis was once an abstraction: numbers on a chart reflecting decreasing bank reserves and increasing bad debt. The crisis is real now, very real, as everyone from the Prime Minister to the cram-school student knows. It's too bad that the country's co-opted and callous career politicians are still managing to keep their politics local and their aspirations factional, ignoring the fact that roads to nowhere will indeed get Japan nowhere...
...also useful to keep on hand a chart of the population statistics to register the preposterous imbalance of the so-called Arab-Israel conflict. There are presently about 13 million Jews in the world, four or five million fewer than there were in 1939, while there are over 250 million Arabs with ties to over a billion Muslims worldwide. Since Judaism predates Islam by millennia, this asymmetry obviously attests to opposing religious priorities—self-limiting in one case, expansionist in the other. The Jews’ concept of election puts enormous pressure on them to try to live...
...premise of Kennedy’s book is to illuminate African-American history through the prism of the word “nigger” and to chart the word’s strange and troubling history. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a word “is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,” but “the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” Kennedy’s book aims to study these circumstances...
...that I know whooping cough numbers are up, I'll have to linger over the list of symptoms in that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...